Improvement in railway-couplings



No 45,713. PAT'BNTED JAN. 3, 1865. D. H. HISE. RAILWAY COUPLING.

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D.-H. RISE, OF SALEM, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY-COUPLINGS.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,7 13, dated January 3, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, D. H. HIsE, of Salem,

in the county of Columbiana and State of Figure 1 isa plan or top view of two rail,v

way-rails connected together according to my invention; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line 00 m, Fig. 3; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the same taken in the line bu .12, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a transverse section of the same taken'in the line 3 y, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to obtain a coupling for railway-rails which will hold the ends of the same in line with each other so as to avoid the injury now occasioned by the hammering of the car-wheels against the projecting ends of the rails. a contingency which soon injures the rails and renders their removal for repairs necessary long before any other portion is materially affected by wear.

A A represent two rails ot'a railway, and B B are two metal bars which are placed at op-,

posite sidesof the rails at their joints, and so formed transversely as to fit snugly in the concave sides of the rails against what is commonly termed the neck, as shown .in Figs.-

3 and 4. These bars B 13 extend or lap over the ends of both rails at about an equal distance, and the bar B has two key-bolts, C O,

which project from its ends at right angles one through each, as shown in Fig. 2said bar B and having holes made in them through which keys D pass vertically, said keys conrails and holding" the ends of the same in line, so that one cannot project above the other or one be forced down below the level of the other as the car-wheels pass over them.

, vE is a. chair, which may he spiked to the sleeper in the usual or in any proper manner.

side of the rails at the joint, and a key is driven vertically into the chairat one side of the rails. By having the keys D'D driven vertically into their respectiveparts they are not liable to be loosened and forced out of place by jars and concussions, prod need by the wheels passing over the rails.

I would remark that if desired the key-bolts O C may bemade separately from the bars B B, provided with heads at one end and fitted in holes made horizontally in the-bar B.

asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The two bars B B, one, B, provided with the key-bolts O O and the other provided with the key-bolts or tangs pass, in connection with the keys D 1), all arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

D. H. HISE.

Witnesses:

J. M. THOMPSON, SAMUEL HARDMAN.

and pass horizontally through the rails-AA-i bolts also passing through openings in thefining the bars B B snugly to the sides of the- This chair has its lips projecting up at each Having thus described myinveution, I claim holes through which and holes in the rails 

